HxH: Fraternal Twins

Chapter 8: Meeting the Demon

A/N: Short, I know. I'm sorry haha, but the next chapter is supposed to be taken up by a full fight. Please forgive me!

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Crashes echoed through the halls while screams filled the air and sounds of blood splattering here and there. One guard was shown running fearfully to a large door then shouted and banged on it with a fist, prying at it desperately as he cried and whimpered. "Boss, they're going to kill us! They're monsters! Please, I beg of you! Let me in!" The man screamed out, begging his boss to open his huge door. Not one reply was heard from the other side of it, just for his own plea to get ignored. "BOSS! PLEASE, LET ME IN! LET ME IIIIIIN!" He turned around only to find Rui standing there, with an expressionless face and her green metallic mantis claws extended close to his face. "Oh god, please, don't kill me! I'm begging you, have merc-!" The pleading guard's head got cut off by Rui's mantis blade, causing it to fall to the floor and for blood to gush out gruesomely. His body instantaneously grew lifeless with the occasional twitch from his limbs. 

"Did you give us mercy... When we begged for it while being tortured for all those years...?" Rui whispered the question to herself with her naturally soft but, surprisingly cold voice. Blood had rested upon the front side of her body and on one side of her face. Illumi stood far back behind her, expressionless as usual until he and Rui both heard footsteps behind them. They both turned around only to face her twin and Hisoka, though Hisoka was behind Ruby with something shiny over his mouth.

"Nee-chaaaaan!"Rui instantly changed her expression to happy-go-lucky, then pounced her comically to the ground, emitting a large thud.

"H- Hey~..."Ruby replied hesitantly, chuckled under her breath then patted her twin's head. "Hey, Rui... Why is there...blood, all over you...?" Asking that, she appeared to be worried after noticing all the gore on her and where a corpse lied against a large doubled door. Ruby moved her hawk eyes back down to her twin after looking around the area; seeing Rui slowly stand up with a confused face then smile softly, she placed her arms behind her back and closed her eyes.

"I killed a guard! I had to... I didn't want to kill him but...he was a bad person..." Rui whimpered a bit then looked sad. She hated having to lie to her own sister but, she had to if she wanted to keep her heart safe from corruption.

"It's all right, Rui..." Ruby reassured her twin with a soft pat on her head and smiled sweetly.

"Erm... Ruby-chan.~Why does Hisoka have duck tape on his mouth?" Rui questioned before blinking a couple of times in puzzlement, her head tilting slightly to the side all the while.

"T-t-t-that's... Well..."Ruby really didn't want to explain what had happened between her and him, remembering what he was about to do, it made her face turn nearly red.

Hisoka gradually tore the tape off and was about to reply in her place. "I was about to make my-" Instead, was cut off my Ruby's hand that got slammed onto his mouth, so he'd stay quiet; he simply blinked curiously and grinned behind her palm.

"Don't you dare, tell her..." Ruby gave a death glare to Hisoka after getting close to his face, dangerously close and allow a shadow to veil over her eyes,  making them intimidating.